Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago.
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Winifred Holtby
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Standard Name: Holtby, Winifred
Birth Name: Winifred Holtby
WH
's posthumous reputation is based on her final novel, South Riding, published after her death. During her lifetime, she was better known as a prominent journalist, invited by Virginia Woolf
in February 1935 to write her autobiography for the Hogarth Press
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
's friends included novelist Elizabeth Robins
, Theodora Bosanquet
(spokesperson for British Federation of University Women
and one-time secretary of Henry James
), MP Ellen Wilkinson
(despite of their different stance on party politics)... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Virginia Woolf
liked the work, but observed that MHVR
was not subtle. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 5: 167 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 103 |
| Textual Production | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | She included essays previously published in Time and Tide about her travels to far-off places such as Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, and the holy places of the earth: Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press. 2 |
| Friends, Associates | Una Marson | UM
was delighted to meet Winifred Holtby
, for whom she had great admiration, at a British Commonwealth League
conference. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 76 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Una Marson | The poems in this collection are grouped under the three headings of Nature, Love, and Life. Some are inspired by UM
's involvement with British feminists, including a sonnet on the death of Winifred Holtby |
| Literary responses | Naomi Mitchison | Winifred Holtby
, writing in The Bookman, ranked this novel as the most important of the year (a year that saw the appearance of Woolf
's The Waves), Squier, Susan M., and Naomi Mitchison. “Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult”. Solution Three, Feminist Press at The City University of New York, pp. 161-83. 165-6 |
| Residence | Sarah, Lady Piers | SLP
lived while her children were young at Stonepit or Stonepitts near Seal in Kent, at the foot of the North Downs. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Stonepitts was later the country retreat of Margaret Haig, Lady Rhondda
.... |
| Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Their many shared friends included Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, and the writer and politician Mary Agnes Hamilton
. In 1940 Hamilton took Harry Gill
, president of the Railway Clerks' Association
and a... |
| Occupation | Mary Stott | Following in the footsteps of Vera Brittain
and Winifred Holtby
, MS
became first virtual, then titular Editor of the Women's Page for the Manchester Guardian (latterly the Guardian). Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber. 63-4 |
| Friends, Associates | Annie S. Swan | During the 1930s ASS
became a friend and correspondent of Winifred Holtby
. They exchanged copies of their books. After Holtby's early death a correspondence developed between ASS
and Vera Brittain
. Swan, Annie S. The Letters of Annie S. Swan. Editor Nicoll, Mildred Robertson, Hodder and Stoughton. 164-5, 171, 249 |
| Reception | Annie S. Swan | Though her married name on the title-page was unusual, her usual readers identified Swan as the author and were appalled. They felt personally betrayed, and did not forgive her. A minister's wife told her of... |
| Literary responses | Annie S. Swan | Among this book's admirers was Winifred Holtby
, who had proffered advice from herself and Vera Brittain
not to worry about reviews, and who then wrote favourable ones herself for both Good Housekeeping and Time... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | As a child Betty Coles (later ET
) wrote plays (with very short scenes each demanding a new and elaborate setting) and stories. She said she always wanted to be a novelist. Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne. 2 |
| Education | Doreen Wallace | At Somerville DW
became a close friend of Dorothy Sayers
(their religious and political disagreements later drove them apart) and in her circle met Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, and theSitwells
. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press. 57 |
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